202308: Prison Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 306158**Salary**:

- £34,402**Job grade**:

- Administrative Assistant**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery
- Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 20Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Upper Arncott, South East England, OX25 1PZAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please see job description**Job description**:
**Prison officer - HMP Bullingdon**

**HMP **Bullingdon - Patrick Haugh Rd, Bicester OX25 1PZ

**Starting salary**:£36,351** (for a 39 hour week inc 20% unsocial)

**City/Town**:Aylesbury**

**Region**: South East

**Vacancy type**: Merit**

As a prison officer, you’ll be part of a diverse team, making an impact, doing meaningful work in our prisons.

Working in a prison is fast-paced and varied, and no two days are the same. You’ll work with a range of people and perform a variety of tasks - from keeping the prison safe and secure, to helping vulnerable people through a difficult time in their lives. Once you’ve qualified, you’ll have a range of opportunities to specialise and progress your career and earning potential.

It can be a challenging job, but in return you will get good pay, training, benefits and have the support of a strong team.

Find out more about this varied role and day-to-day life as a prison officer.

**Don’t miss out on this limited opportunity to do all the following in one day**:

- **Visit the prison and see what its like working at HMP Bullingdon**:

- **Speak to some of our prison officers**:

- **Meet our friendly assessors who will test to see if you have the abilities, behaviours and strengths be to a prison officer**:

- **Complete your medical and fitness tests**:

- **Start your pre-employment checks if you pass your assessments**

**Application Process**

You don’t need qualifications to become a prison officer.** **Personal qualities are more important. You need to show:
During the recruitment process you will be assessed on the behaviours, strengths and abilities you need to become an effective prison officer. These include:

- communicating and influencing
- managing a quality service
- making effective decisions
- caring

Your natural strengths are assessed to find out what motivates and energises you. We will also assess your numerical, written English and spoken English abilities.

Subject to meeting the eligibility criteria, you will be invited to complete the online tests, to see if you have the basic judgement and numerical skills expected of a prison officer.

Due to the number of positions currently available, this vacancy is only open for a short period of time and only individuals who perform highest at the online tests will be invited to our ‘Offer in a Day’ assessment centre.

**The assessment centre**

If you pass the online tests, we will invite you to an assessment centre.

We test to see if you have the abilities, behaviours and strengths to be a prison officer.

During the day you will be asked to complete the online assessment centre which includes a role play, a written test, interview and a medical and fitness test. This will include an eyesight test, hearing test and basic health screening, including a blood pressure check.

Once successful we will support you through your onboarding forms and help you complete your pre-employment check requirements.

We will tell you what to expect and bring before the day in more.

**Job details**

**Eligibility**

To become a prison officer, you will need to:

- be at least 18 years old
- have the right to work in the UK
- be reasonably fit and able to pass our fitness test
- have good eyesight in both eyes (both with and without corrective lenses)

For safety reasons, everyone training to be a prison officer needs a suitable standard of hearing (without the use of hearing aids).

To work in a high security prison (category A) you must have been a resident in the UK for the last three years.

**Nationality requirements**

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

**Visa sponsorship**

Please note we are unable to sponsor any individuals via the Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visa.
Successful applicants must ensure they have and maintain the legal right to live and work in the Civil Service and in the United Kingdom.

**Pay**

The initial training is 37 hours a week. After training, you can choose to work 37, 39 or 41 hours a week. Your annual salary will reflect your weekly hours:

- 37 hours